Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright green bathrobe with a golden harp between the shoulderblades, Jimmy McLarnin, lightweight, climbed into a roped square in Madison Square Garden. After one minute and forty-seven seconds of fighting he climbed out again onto the shoulders of yelling spectators. Alone in the ring with his handlers, a curly-headed Jew, Sidney Terris ("Pride of the Ghetto"), came slowly back to consciousness, asked what had happened, and began to cry. A single short right to the jaw had finished him. McLarnin, boxing sensation of the season, is matched to fight loafing Lightweight-Champion Samuel Mandell in June...
...lowest floor of Madison Square Garden, in long tiers of boxlike berths, sat some 2,410 dogs. Of these, some were of well-known and orthodox breeds; others Afghan hounds, Eskimos, Norwegian Elk-hounds, Pinschers (Doberman), Salukis, Schnauzers (miniature), Samoyedes; 17 were miscellaneous. All were in varying states of trepidation or delight, depending upon their personalities. Those who were in trepidation slept or snarled; those who enjoyed the dog show, as many women enjoy large dinner parties, sat up and preened their coats, or barked merrily. To stroll into this lowest floor, where the dogs were "benched" was like strolling...
Upstairs, in the arena of Madison Square Garden, the scene was less hectic. A scattering of smart people sat in boxes or strolled about; other people, haggard, dirty, inarticulate, led their dogs about on leashes. The centre of the large oval arena had been squared off, floored with rough green carpet, spotted here and there with dark, irregular circles. Into this place, people brought their dogs to be examined by the judges. It was for the judges, prodding the sparse flesh upon a terrier's bones or stroking the pursed silky ear of a beagle, to decide how each...
...would be idle to suppose that the tiny fraction of the U. S. canine population which last week posed and strutted in Madison Square Garden was in any sense the most important. Other dogs did not pause last week, in the performance of their deeds and duties, to admire the antics of these prototypes. Instead, as if stimulated by such a public display of good breeding, they spent a week of exceptional and most engrossing activity. Aside from their regular business-that of burying bones, digging up bones, barking at automobiles, scaring children, sniffing at feet or tree trunks, running...
...owner, this individual crept to the box wherein Warily Gang Leader was chained, before which a sentry should have been posted. Presumably, then, he put Warily Gang Leader warily under his coat, deposited him in a sack, then put the sack in a truck leaving a back entrance of Madison Square Garden, to avoid porters instructed to let no dog leave the building without properly identified escort. When Reginald M. Lewis, owner of Warily Gang Leader and Talavera Margaret, returned, the kennel was bare. His loss was approximately...